This is lookin GREAT! I cant wait to see what it looks like in a month@!

No bueno, no bueno at all. I am plague with brown algae and my xmas moss still has hair algae. I miss using my tap water. I've gotten my tds down to 70, which should be a good range for taiwan bees I've read. I want my blue bolt male to turn back to blue. I'm going to increase my water changes more frequently to try and rid of algae (from just top offs) and keep my tds in the 70-80 range as well or at least try. I just did a 50% water change yesterday and hair algae/utricularia turned more clear. I expected my peacock moss to be much thicker, so it could be taiwan. I might add an airstone for more oxygen as my filters are inconsistent because of the nylon on the intake. They clog up very fast and I constently have to rub them down so it won't drip rather than flow.

Here are pics:
weeping moss on the brink(still going to keep it in here)

Just wanted to show you guys what oxygen injection can do, although its not getting rid of the diatoms and hair algae, it is stimulating moss growth. I did not change anything except added two airstones. I held off on water changes to prove this point. Why wasn't it working with two filters surface agitation? Iono, but the filters were inconsistent and kept clogging up. I took out my smaller aquaclear so now its just one filter, uv sterilizer and two airstones powered by fusion 500. Tips of moss are bright green again, meaning new growth. Its been three days in pictures since I added the airstones, but the first day after I noticed new growth outta my weeping moss right away. Now if only the brown algae would go away like it is said to suppose to in algae post.
weeping moss

hi guys, miss me? haha ya right. Not too long ago my male blue bolt died on me and I converted this tank to pure tap. I still have my blue bolt female which is kicking it strong but never berried. With minimal, I mean minimal water changes, mosses are doing very well. They look rather patchy, as well I've got a lot of blue velvet/blue rili babies despite having the adults dissappearing on me and seeing only one death outta 20 or so adults. Here are pictures:

is t just me though, or is weeping moss really annoying to get growing? I had some tied to wood in my tanks and it slowly started browning, although it seems to be fine just attached to nothing and being ignored in a 10 gallon (shrugs)

is t just me though, or is weeping moss really annoying to get growing? I had some tied to wood in my tanks and it slowly started browning, although it seems to be fine just attached to nothing and being ignored in a 10 gallon (shrugs)

I think its just as easy to grow as any other moss, but getting it to weep is more difficult. I don't know why it didn't start off well like my other mosses in ro before all the algae came.

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